Electric cigar-lighter.



M. H. SPIELMAN. ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26, I915.

1,164,767. Patented Dec.21,1915.

A TTOR/VF Y UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

MAXIMILLIAIM E1". SPIELMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Z.

ELECTRIC CIGAR-LIGHTER.

Application filed July as, 1915.

Z '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAXIMILLIAN H. SPTELMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Cigar-Lighters, of which the following is a description in such full, clear, and exact terms as will enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a cigar lighter of that class in which a fine metallic wire is heated to incandescence by electricity to enable the cigar to be lighted therefrom. Ordinarily these devices operate with difficulty because the smoker cannot draw air through the cigar when it is engaged with the lighter and difliculty is thereby experienced in setting fire to the cigar.

The object of my invention is to overcome this difficulty by providing for a movement of an air current through the cigar lighter, while, and by reason of putting on the cigar.

Reference is now had to the accompanying drawings which show as an example the preferred embodiment of my invention.

In these drawingsFigure l is a sectional elevation of the cigar lighter and Fig. 2 is a detail section showing the preferred manner of fastening the incandescent wires.

The device is provided with a body a of metal or other suitable material furnished with a switch a to be operated with the thumb or other finger of the user while holding the device. The current is carried to the body a preferably by flexible wires 6 which terminate in contact points Z) at the upper part of the body.

The cap of the device in which my invention resides is formed preferably of a cylindrical metal outer part c and of cylindrical metal inner part (Z swaged together at their outer ends and separated from each other at their inner ends so that the body a may lock with the cap through the action of apin and bayonet slot device 6. The outer part c of the cap is separated from the body a so that air currents may pass between them and the inner part (Z has openings d which allow the air to enter the interior of the cap.

A suitable mica or other insulation disk 7 is fastened in the outer part of the cap and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

Serial No. 41,833.

has a number of orifices f therein which serve the double purpose of allowing the incandescent wire 9 to be woven through them and allowing the air currents before mentioned to pass. The wires 9 extend down to contact points 72, held in the inner portion of the cap by an insulation mass it which is secured in the part (Z.

The incandescent wire may be secured to the insulation head or disk f of the cap in any way desired but I prefer to employ the clasps it shown in Fig. 2, which are made of wire and pass around the incandescent wire the inner ends of the clasps being bent to anchor them in place. This prevents the user from displacing the incandescent wires by rubbing the end of the cigar against them. Of course, the incandescent wire is projected out in a number of ramifications ver the face of the disk or head plate f so as to present a larger surface to the cigar and to facilitate the lighting thereof.

In the use of my invention the user takes the device in his hand and closes the electric circuit by operating the switch a. This raises the wire 9 to incandescence and the cigar may be lighted by placing the end of the cigar against the wire and putting or drawing on the cigar which induces a current of air under the part 0 of the head of the device, through the holes (Z and f and into the cigar and allows the cigar to be easily lighted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is An electrical cigar lighter having a body with an open end, a cap set removably on the said end of the body and comprising spaced cylindrical inner and outer side parts, the inner being orificed and engaging the body and the outer spaced from the body for the circulation of the air through it to the orifice of the inner wall, an orificed insulation disk in the outer part of the cap and complementary electrical conductor means on said disk, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two witnesse MAXIMILLIAN H. SPIELMAN.

Witnesses:

PATRICK A. BOLGER, S. E. TANNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

